I was in High School and started working in a body shop through the work program to learn a trade. Worked their a week, come payday the owner tried to pay me with an 8 ball of cocaine. I kindly told him I only work for cash not coke. Told me to **** off and get the hell out of his shop. So I went home, told my dad what happen and we drove down to the police station. Needless to say the owner wasn't too happy when I showed up with 3 cars full of police officers. They closed his shop and arrested him, before the police locked the building up I helped my self to some of his tools that would cover my pay. Sold them to one of the other employees a week later when he started a new job. The dumb **** owner wound up turning evidence against his supplier and only had to serve 6 months. Another job I had only lasted 6 hours. It was for a fast food restaurant that has a lot of high school kids working until 10pm, since I was 18 I could stay until closing time at 12am. The manager tells me he'll be back at 11pm to show me what I have to do and that at 10pm there'll be another employee that comes in to help me. 10pm comes and all the high school kids leave and my help never shows up. Luckily we close the dining room at 10pm and only have the drive up. I get slammed, I'm by myself and there's a line of cars out to the main road. finally the manager shows up at 11:45pm starts yelling at me because the dining room hasn't been cleaned up, the kitchen is a mess and there is still a line of cars for the drive up. Were almost out of everything by this time. So I tell him to F off and leave. The look on his face was priceless. The next day the assistant manager calls me and begs me to come back to work. I tell him the only way I'd come back is if I'm made night manager, given a very large wage and I get an apology from the manager. He called me back an hour later, says yes to all my demands. Stayed there for 2 years until I found out the manager and his father, who was the corporate controller, was embezzalling funds from corporate and his son was robbing the store blind. He tried to pin the thefts on me, but I covered myself too good for him, plus I had a connection on the police force and notified them what was going on. I guess I didn't have very good luck when I was younger working for establishments that were above board. At least on the last job I had all the high schools i wanted:toothy8::toothy8:
Dan
